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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10739, 9 November 1928, Page 2

liquor in Factories. A Canadian Employer Condemns Prohibition. Writing to the New Zealand Licensing Reform Association in May of this year, Mr F. Barry Hayes, president of the Toronto CarpetManufacturing Company, -which employs’ some two thousand hands, indicates somei of the reasons why prohibition has been abandoned in Canada.' after a,n extensive period of trial, and State control installed in its place. Mr Hayes writes as one who has', by experience, been converted from an advocate of “extreme prohibition” to a supporter of Government control. His letter is as follows: • „ The Toronto Carpet Mfg. Co., Ltd. Toronto, Canada, May SO, 1928. Mr. R. A. Armstrong, Dominion Secretary, The New Zealand Licensing Reform Association. Wellington, N.Z, Dear Sir, —• I have your favour of the 24th ult., in reference to prohibition in Canada. As ■ far as I can judge, doing away with prohibition and carrying Government control has been all to the good. When prohibition came in first, as a large employer of labour (having about 2000 employees in fiflir* different factories), we were aradvocates of it, and I must say that 'during the war our employees liveflMin to its requirements; hut, war, they seemed to cjnMemthM tj_ieir liberties were bJig int®Jer|d. #ith, and resopte# tip, vntKjtib that iosreadJpf #n^ Sihce«SGiovirnmfnt.lbo|ftrblßio#»een in fore®, this hajf a Iff away with,- and we tfiiw very much less drinking i<» beirfs*4aone, because the people canjfonly buy from dispensaries, so that the excesses that took place undjfr prohibition aro more cr less eliminated. With our young people in social sets, girl and boy both invariably carried flasks with them to dances, which had ' a, very detrimental effecton them, Thip has been done away with almost altogether under the control, i.e., a host can now provide some kind of cup—claret or wine or even punch—and, as the young people are not restricted, and know that they can get more if they require it, they do riot go to excesses! in any way. In regard to the general health of the community: under prohibition a lot of bootlegging liquor was sold, and many deaths and impaired health was the result, as a great deal of the liquor was synthetic gin and illegally-manufactured goods. I do not think that -the.., people generally would ever return to prohibition again, and I may siav I am a convert* from extreme prohibition to Government control. The fact that. W 6 have no sales of liquor in the bar as it used to be. is quite a factor. All treating, which was a bane to life in the old days, is 'done away with. Yours vdry truly, (Sgd.), F. Barry Hayes (President.) The foregoing is hut one of hundreds of similar communications received from leaders of thought in all walks of in Canada* They are unanimous in condemning prohibition (after an actual experience of that system extending over .many years) and in praising State control. The example of oiir aster British Dominion should he given due consideration by the people of New .Zealand, who will, at the approaching poll, have the opportunity of declaring for true- temperance by voting for State Purchase and Control.—3.

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